A typological study of motion event in Kurdish verbs

• Masoud Dehghan ^[1] ; Kourosh Saberi ^[2]
  1. [1] Universidad de Kurdistan (Irán)
  2. [2] Universidad Razi (Irán)
• Localización: Onomázein: Revista de lingüística, filología y traducción de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, ISSN 0718-5758, ISSN-e 0717-1285, Nº. 65, 2024, págs. 152-170
• Idioma: inglés
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  • he present study aims to investigate the representation of motion events in Kalhori Kurd-ish (KK) using Talmy's Lexicalization Patterns Model (1985, 2000), with the goal of typologi-cally analyzing how motion events are encoded in the language. This qualitative research involved the collection of 200 Kurdish motion verbs through unstructured interviews. The results indicate that KK employs nine distinct conflation patterns, with the two-component conflation patterns—motion + manner and motion + path—showing the highest frequen-cies, respectively. Additionally, the three-component pattern of motion + path + manner also exhibited a notable frequency, following the two-component patterns. Based on these findings, it can be concluded that KK utilizes both path-based and manner-based motion verbs. Furthermore, the higher frequency of the three-component pattern suggests that KK should be classified as a bipartite language.